Local Coinages in a Roman World (Second Century BC?First Century AD). A Catalogue of the Richard B. Witschonke Collection of Coins in the Early Roman Provinces

Hardback, 2 vols, xvi + 560 pages, Size:210 x 297 mm, Illustrations:7452 b/w, 1 col., 3 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9780897224017. Summary The Richard B. Witschonke Collection of more than 3,700 coins, now in the collection of the American Numismatic Society, provides the historical and numismatic prologue to the study of Roman provincial coinage. Most of the specimens are of great historical and numismatic value, as explained in the historical introductions preceding each of the 36 sections of this catalogue. This collection offers a unique overview of the diverse ways in which the monetary systems of the Mediterranean basin responded to the Roman conquest in the second and early first centuries BCE and to the related necessity of interconnectivity. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword by Gilles Bransbourg Preface Introduction 1. Spain Introduction Catalogue 2. Spanish Imitations of Roman Republican Coinage Introduction Catalogue 3. Gaul Introduction Catalogue 4. Roman Republican Coinage Introduction (Liv M. Yarrow) Catalogue 5. Italian Imitations of Roman Republican Coinage Introduction Catalogue 6. Non-State Coinages of Central Italy Introduction (Clive Stannard) Catalogue (Clive Stannard and Lucia F. Carbone) 7. Italy Introduction (Federico Carbone) Catalogue 8. Sardinia Introduction Catalogue 9. Sicily and Adjacent Islands Introduction (Suzanne Frey-Kupper) Catalogue (Suzanne Frey-Kupper and Lucia F. Carbone) 10. Geto-Dacian Imitations of Roman Republican Coinage Introduction Catalogue 11. Eraviscan Imitations of Roman Republican Coinage Introduction Catalogue 12. Africa Introduction Catalogue 13. Crete and Cyrenaica Introduction (Federico Carbone) Catalogue 14. Achaea Introduction Catalogue 15. "Fleet Coinage" Introduction Catalogue 16. Macedonia Introduction (Sophia Kremydi) Catalogue (Sophia Kremydi and Lucia F. Carbone) 17. Thrace and Moesia Introduction Catalogue 18. Bosporus Introduction (Oliver D. Hoover) Catalogue 19. Paphlagonia Introduction (Oliver D. Hoover) Catalogue 20. Bithynia Introduction (Oliver D. Hoover) Catalogue (Oliver D. Hoover and Lucia F. Carbone) 21. Pontus Introduction Catalogue 22. Asia Introduction Catalogue 23. "Cistophoric" Countermarks Introduction Catalogue 24. Early Cistophori Introduction Catalogue 25. Aristonicus' Cistophori Introduction Catalogue 26. Late Cistophori Introduction Catalogue 27. Later Republican and Pre-Imperial Cistophori Introduction Catalogue 28. Lycia-Pamphylia Introduction (Oliver D. Hoover) Catalogue 29. Galatia and Pisidia Introduction (Oliver D. Hoover) Catalogue 30. Cappadocia Introduction (Oliver D. Hoover) Catalogue (Oliver D. Hoover and Lucia F. Carbone) 31. Cyprus Introduction (Oliver D. Hoover) Catalogue (Oliver D. Hoover and Lucia F. Carbone) 32. Cilicia Introduction (Oliver D. Hoover) Catalogue (Oliver D. Hoover and Lucia F. Carbone) 33. Syria Introduction (Oliver D. Hoover) Catalogue (Oliver D. Hoover and Lucia F. Carbone) 34. Coele Syria Introduction (Oliver D. Hoover) Catalogue (Oliver D. Hoover and Lucia F. Carbone) 35. The Decapolis, Idumaea, and Judaea Introduction (Oliver D. Hoover) Catalogue (David Hendin, Oliver D. Hoover and Lucia F. Carbone) 36. Egypt Introduction (Oliver D. Hoover) Catalogue (Oliver D. Hoover and Lucia F. Carbone) Bibliography Indices 0 g.…